go-hipchat - WIP
go-hipchat is a Go client library for accessing the Hipchat API v2.
go-hipchat requires Go version 1.8 or greater.
This is WIP!
Usage
import "github.com/theodesp/go-hipchat/hipchat"
Construct a new HipChat client, then use the various services on the client to access different parts of the HipChat API. For example:
Some API methods have optional parameters that can be passed. For example:
NOTE: Using the context package, one can easily
pass cancelation signals and deadlines to various services of the client for
handling a request. In case there is no context available, then context.Background()
can be used as a starting point.
For more sample code snippets, head over to the examples directory.
Authentication
The go-hipchat library does not directly handle authentication. Instead, when
creating a new client, pass an http.Client
that can handle authentication for
you. The easiest and recommended way to do this is using the oauth2
library, but you can always use any other library that provides an
http.Client
. If you have an OAuth2 access token (for example, a personal
API token), you can use it with the oauth2 library using:
Note that when using an authenticated Client, all calls made by the client will include the specified OAuth token. Therefore, authenticated clients should almost never be shared between different users.
See the oauth2 docs for complete instructions on using that library.
Rate Limiting
Hipchat imposes a rate limit on all API clients. 500 API requests per 5 minutes. Once you exceed the limit, calls will return HTTP status 429.
Learn more about HipChat rate limiting at https://developer.atlassian.com/server/hipchat/hipchat-rest-api-rate-limits.
Response Codes
https://developer.atlassian.com/server/hipchat/hipchat-rest-api-response-codes
For complete usage of go-hipchat, see the full [package docs][https://godoc.org/github.com/theodesp/go-hipchat/hipchat].
Roadmap
Versioning
In general, go-hipchat follows semver as closely as we can for tagging releases of the package. For self-contained libraries, the application of semantic versioning is relatively straightforward and generally understood. But because go-hipchat is a client library for the HipChat API, which itself changes behavior, and because we are typically pretty aggressive about implementing preview features of the HipChat API, we've adopted the following versioning policy:
- We increment the major version with any incompatible change to non-preview functionality, including changes to the exported Go API surface or behavior of the API.
- We increment the minor version with any backwards-compatible changes to functionality, as well as any changes to preview functionality in the HipChat API.
- We increment the patch version with any backwards-compatible bug fixes.
Preview functionality may take the form of entire methods or simply additional data returned from an otherwise non-preview method. Refer to the HipChat API documentation for details on preview functionality.
License
This library is distributed under the BSD-style license found in the LICENSE file.